Peking University, Dec. 8, 2015: When you are sitting in the shade of those towering trees, do you ever think about how they extend their long, luxuriant branches? How those little buds develop into boughs and twigs?For decades scientists have been working on this problem and suc...

Peking University, Dec 1, 2015: When graphene was first isolated in 2004, the whole scientific community was excited. They had good reasons to celebrate: for one thing, graphene had been theorized about for decades and it is difficult to imagine the good stability in terms of its...

Peking University, Nov. 16, 2015: Dr. XieCan at School of Life Sciences, Peking University and his collaborators discovered a novel magnetoreceptor protein (named MagR)and suggested a biocompass model for animal magnetoreception and navigation. A paper entitled “A magnetic...

Peking University, Nov. 16, 2015: Most parent compounds of iron-based high temperature superconductors display a finite temperature “nematic” phase transition with spontaneous breaking of the 4-fold crystal rotation symmetry. This transition is usually accompanied by...

Peking University, Nov. 13, 2015: In the phase diagram of iron-based superconductors, superconductivity is commonly situated near the vanishing point of the phase boundary between tetragonal and orthorhombic crystal structures. This commonality has invoked major research efforts...